rejecting skype-translations

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2014-07-13 09:39, Adam Conrad wrote:
> The universe/multiverse split is about freedoms offered.  Both still
> need to be distributable, however.  If the translations are considered
> a derived work of Skype itself (and it's hard to argue with that point
> of view, given not only that their only purpose is to be used with
> Skype, but that they're also literally derived from the strings in
> Skype itself), then the only people who can give you a valid license
> to distribute are Microsoft.
> 
> Without that explicit license, any distribution would be a copyright
> violation, component wouldn't matter.  With that license, then the
> component depends on the license MS grants for translations, of
> course.

Thanks, Adam. Understood. Unfortunately it makes sense too. ;)

Getting back on the topic if/when I have some good news.

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